Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Latest News

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Read the latest news of how the United States Agency for International Development is responding to COVID-19.

 

The U.S. Government Provides Food Assistance to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population of Tajikistan
April 9, 2020

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Food for Peace program, in collaboration with the public organization, Avesto, and the American organization, Resource and Policy Exchange, Inc. (RPX) delivered 56,280 kg of food assistance worth more than $171,000 to the Government of Tajikistan. This food assistance will be distributed to more than 100 health and social protection facilities in Tajikistan including facilities that are providing quarantine services related to COVID-19, to patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) on long-term outpatient care, to TB, oncology and psychiatry institutions, to the National Red Crescent Society, the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense and the Agency of the Republic of Tajikistan for State Reserves.  More than 33,000 Tajikistan citizens will benefit from this assistance.

U.S. Government Committed Fund for COVID-19
April 8, 2020

The U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed $1.1 million to help the Government of Timor-Leste fight COVID-19, U.S. Ambassador to Timor-Leste Kathleen Fitzpatrick announced today.

The U.S. Government Mobilizes to Combat COVID-19 in Tajikistan
April 7, 2020

The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced a commitment of $868,923 to increase Tajikistan’s ability to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan John Mark Pommersheim, [in a video message to the Tajik people: https://bit.ly/2UTMjXj], announced that U.S. assistance will further support Tajikistan’s efforts to prepare and respond to COVID-19.  

I am so proud of our team here at the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat as they work hard to protect U.S. citizens and partner with Turkmenistan to respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic.”
April 6, 2020

The U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, with the cooperation of the Government of Turkmenistan, has assisted dozens of U.S. citizens in Turkmenistan in returning to the United States.  

The U.S. Government has committed $2.9 Million to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in India from the Emergency Reserve Fund for Contagious Infectious Diseases at USAID.
April 6, 2020

On March 28, the U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced $2.9 million to support India in its response to the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19.  This builds on a foundation of more than $1.4 billion in health assistance, and nearly $3 billion in total assistance, that the United States has provided to India over the last 20 years.

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